Reviews

Damien Chazelle works up quite the cinematic lather in his magnum opus, a decade and a half in the making, spanning the Silent Era, circa 1926 to the talkies, and beyond.  Babylon has some one-hundred speaking parts in an ambitious cautionary tale that ultimately proves more elevating than exhilarating.  It’s a febrile dramedy that eventually […]

Away from Her director Sarah Polley locates an empowering resonance in an adaptation of Miriam Toews’ 2018 novel.   Women Talking is a volume to be less than dramatically dynamic, but that may be the case for what can be moving and sincere from a distaff faith-based octet.  One that is motivated by lies, male […]

Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan. Requiem for a Dream) draws from Samuel D. Hunter’s adaptation of his own 2012 play set during the 2016 U.S. primary season in rural Idaho. The bold ambitions of the helmsman doesn’t extend to being more calculating when it comes to aa reclusive on-line, morbidly obese writing instructor, Charlie (Brendan Fraser, […]

An overused idea limits the script and detracts from the beauty and creative designs of the mysterious land and unique characters the cast explores. The main premise is the standard story of a father expecting his son to follow in his footsteps and the kid looking at different horizons.  Getting past the limited story the […]

A true story revolving around Ensign Jesse Brown (Jonathan Majors) an African American Navy pilot during the Korean War (which was called a conflict because war was never openly declared and even today there is a truce but no final settlement to that early 1950s involvement on the Korean peninsula. Because of that few stories […]